St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
TROUBLE TO FOLLOW.
The Trafalgar Square Issue
Is Not by Any Means
Yet Settled,
Although Gladstone Advises
the People to Remain
Peace able.
The Tenor of the Reports
Shows That the Crown
Prince Is Dying.
Developments in the French
Scandal--An IriShman'S
Fortified Castle.
By Cable to the Globe.

LONDON, Nov. 14.-It is safe to say
that the socialists, the anarchists, the
unemployed, the wOrkingmen and all
who helped to make up the mob that
attempted to force its way. or rather its
various ways, into Trafalgar square yes
terday are in Estate of mind" and
that state of mind is by no means
tranquil one, either. The leaders are
thoroughly reused, and in the sOcialistic
and anarchistic retreats growlS and
mutterings that sound like the low
thunder of all approaching storm are
heard. Will there be battle? Will
ChicagO's Haymarket be repeated?
THE STERN LAW
be obliged to step in and pat to silence
some of the agitatOrS' voices? These
are the questions which London is pom
dering over now, and the present time
seems ripe for action of some sort. If
trouble does come, there will be no
ehild'S play about it, but it will be cruel
and hard to the end. If the agitatOrS
will be temperate and follow Mr.. Glad
stones advice and regard what has al
ready been done as sufficient demon
stratiOn to raise a constitutional issue,
Yesterdays riot will be the last one of
its kind. On the other hand, If
Mr. Bradlaugh, that free-thiDking COM
moner, and others like him do as they
now propose, more trouble and worse
trouble will surely come, unless the
eOunSelS of the grand old man prevail.
who deprecateS further meetings and
strifes with the authorities. Mr.. Brad
laugh and other leaders intend to meet
again next Sunday and make another
attempt to defy the police. The police
and soldiers would not again be SO
Ienient as they were yesterday, and If
the meeting does take place next Sun
day it may certainly be expected that
the riot act will be read, and then what
bloody results will follow no one can
tell.
.GLADsTONE'S ADVICE.
:, Mr.. Gladstone, replying to the secre-
tary of London Radical club, wrote as
follows to-day: 81 think you will eX
pect me to meet your request by All eX-
plicit answer expressing the best Judg-
ment which, while absent from the spot,
/ am able to form on the deplorable dis
turbances of yesterday. As l under
stand the matter the home secretary
stated Saturday for the information of
the public that he intended to prevent
Yesterdays meeting in Trafalgar square
and he believed the prevention to be
within his legal power. The
question is one of great moment
to the inhabitants OF London.
particularly to those at present unem-
nloyed and in circumstances of distress.
1t will be generally felt that the state of
law in regard to the matter ought to be
promptly tested and ascertained. Until
such decision can be had it is the duty
+ of every citizen to refrain from all re-
sistance to the determination of the eX-
ecutive branch of the government,
which is clearly entitled to administer
the laws according to what it may be
advised is their true construction. Such
abstinence is, think, due alike to the
high character of the people of London
for the maintenance Of public order
and to the respect we owe to the law
and to the mode in which it is usually
applied, through the medium of the ad
mirable police force of the metropolis.
But must add that the appeal to par
lament and the nation Oh the grave and
solemn issues now raised by the pro-
ceedings of the government in Ireland,
would suffer disastrous prejudice were
the appeal to be associated in any man.
ner by those who make it with metro
politan disturbances" 1t is the general
opinion that Mr.. GladstOne's advice
not to make party issue out of the ac-
ton of the authorities yesterday will be
followed.
LORD SALISBURY.
after an interview with Home Secretary
Matthews to-day, sent to Sir Charles
Warren the thanks of the government
for his admirable plans to suppress a
disturbance in Trafalgar square yester-
s day. In response to numerous offers
Mr.. Matthews proposes to enroll house
holders as special cOnstableS to assist
the police against the mob if riOting is
threatened on next Sunday. Mr.. Brad
laugh, NJ. p, has written letter pro-
testing against the prohibition of meet
ings in Trafalgar square. He denounces
what he calls the brutal conduct of the
government, but he appeals to work.
men to leave the right of holding pub
lie meetings to the law cOurtssSand the
yindicatiOn of parliament. His advice.
combined with that of Mr.. Gladstone.
viii be potent with the Radical clubs.
Already the feeling among these clubs
is that enough has been done to test the
question.
Seventy-fve charges were entered
to-day at the Bow Street police court
against the Trafalgar square rioters of
Yesterday. Most of the prisoners es-
capped with fine, but some were SELL
teiped to four and six months imprisOn-
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